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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We always say that FARM students are the down fall of certain schools.  Yet I think financially strapped teachers and principals can bring down schools faster.  Incentives and integrity are not at the opposite ends of the education spectrum.  Closing the education gap and the financial divide is too tempting for the most honest people.[/quote]

You can't even begin to teach if you don't have the resources, and a big part of the reason teachers are financially strapped is because of how central office apportions the resources.   The Frontline documentary showed that Rhee discovered 100+ lazy, bad-attitude central office staff just showing up for a paycheck and not doing their job, hanging on to many years worth of textbooks and supplies that were not being distributed to where they were needed, and took swift action to fix that.  There has been corruption going back for decades at DCPS, Rhee only scratched the surface, but at least she tried - but doing so meant threatening the meal ticket of hundreds of people who were just showing up for the paycheck, and that[b] obviously created some backlash[/b].[/quote]

Why should it? Oh that's right... they were ENTITLED to a paycheck. The sense of entitlement needs to be addressed. [/quote]

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